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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Of course he did, he was never serious about doing an interview as Jon would absolutely bury him alive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Airing 45 minutes of them trying to get ahold of Elon would have been great. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

They should have Mike Myers go on as Elon and do a mock interview.

[–] drascus 27 points 19 hours ago

He has shut down other interviews too. Its clear all he wants is people who kiss his ass and tell him his smart he is.

[–] Lucidlethargy 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Every one of these people in Trump's cabinet is a pussy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

fElon isn't in his cabinet. That's kinda one of the many Constitutional Crises that are playing out in real time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

like so many others...

called it!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago

We know fElon is a coward. Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Musk demands unedited interviews but can't handle unfiltered criticism—irony at its finest.

😺😺😺😺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Stewart's reply was that all their interviews like this are unedited lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

What a shock. Jon wouldn't hold back punches, and Musk knows that. Musk only goes on Podcasts where the host's opinions change depending on the guest.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

For me the weirdest moment was when Joe Rogan - before the election - said that Musk "saved us". Not "is going to save us", already saved us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Drumpf also alluded to "he's got the best coders, it's just one line of code," fElon will hand us the win! Before the election.

fElon also said before the election, "If he [Drumpf] doesn't win, I'm probably going to prison," [sic] alongside President Elect Drumpf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

During the 2000 election, the Diebold electronic voting machines used in many states stored results in an Access database. Kids today wouldn't understand how disastrously insecure that was (Access DBs had an audit table that was manually editable). I have zero doubt that newer machines have similar "flaws" baked in (even if they didn't use Starlink as was reported briefly), making the results absurdly easy to rig.

[–] Bakkoda 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There's also a huge huge risk of speaking with a master debater (yw). Smart people are everywhere. People who are genuinely good at debating are terrifying to argue with. It's a rabid animal except they have facts and logic and easy to understand, well structured arguments. It's infuriating.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

Musk is a bitch with a big ol pussy

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew he was going to pussy out. Conservatives who are routinely in the public eye can't survive outside of their safe spaces. That's why Republican politicians are cancelling their town halls. They can't handle anything other than a gentle interview on FOX or OAN with the questions sent to them ahead of time so they can get their answers from the heritage foundation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the right suddenly stopped talking about masculinity is jaw-dropping

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

It's insulting to president musk and his fat, gross lap dog.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago

Is anyone surprised? Elon is dumb, but he's knows better than to go up against Jon.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What else would a coward do?

He couldn't even follow through on his fight with clothing store mannequin Mark Fuckerberg.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Even though he's just 5'7" and 155 lbs, I don't think I'd want to take Zuckerberg on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've got half a foot and a hundred pounds on him, I would jump at the opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

I don't even know you but I'd jump at the opportunity to watch that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Eh, I don't think he's been upgraded to the liquid metal version yet so you'd probably be OK.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

And nobody is surprised even slightly.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Typical far-right behavior. They stay in their safe spaces and pay to artificialy amplify their unpopular messages.

What was it, like a quarter of all the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are just AI chat bots trying to get people to engage?

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I'm shocked. Right up there with his cage fight with Zuck. He can't handle pressure. He got booed at Chappelle's standup show, and reportedly locked himself in his office to the point where people had to check on him and were worried he was self harming. He's fucking 10 ply.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not at the rate of his drug usage... His parts wont even be usable.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

He’s fucking 10 ply.

Okay, I almost did a literal spit-take when reading that. I had just taken a sip of coffee.

Well done. 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Im so shocked

[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Brave Sir Elon ran away. Bravely ran away away. When danger reared it's ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Elon turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Swiftly taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the brave, Sir Elon!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

All talk. No substance. Like all of MAGA. Just a bunch of J@cka$$e$ 🙄

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Fuckin' weenie.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

Did his mom tell him no? Like with the Zuckerberg fight?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Figured Elon would wait until the day off to back out, not immediately after Jon announced it was on

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I’m sure he’ll be on Joe rogan again getting verbally fellated and reassured that he dodged a bullet not going on the violent left wing propaganda deep state media show

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk probably watched Stewart’s conservative show interview appearances over on YouTube, dating back to his first stint on the daily show. They couldn’t trip Stewart. He rolled over all of them. The interviews stopped, again, surprising no one.

[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

Jon Stewart single-handedly got CNN's "Crossfire" ( featuring a not-yet-fully-crazy Tucker Carlson) cancelled just by going on the show and doing his thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart%27s_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire

In the final exchange before a commercial break, Carlson remarked that he thought Stewart was "more fun on your show, just my opinion." Stewart responded, "You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."

(Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I'm old ....)

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